Brooklyn (Bridge) Flea
The city's favorite flea market spends Saturdays in Fort Greene and Sundays in DUMBO, which isn't a bad way to pass a summer weekend, actually.
You can't beat the location, a parking lot beneath the Brooklyn Bridge that affords views of architectural wonders both above and across the East River. And yet, somehow the concrete ground meshed with the concrete sky and combined with the vendors' plastic tents to transform the day from merely sweltering into Dante territory. In other words, much too hot to shop.
It's never too hot to eat, though, especially when fried-to-order fish tacos are involved. We also sampled surprisingly scrumptious margherita pizza cooked in a portable, 900-degree coal oven. A portable coal oven! Rather than stand in line for papusas, we opted for a sweet treat: greenmarket-fresh, very grown-up blackberry-and-cantaloupe and sweet melon popsicles. A wise decision, even if popsicle quickly became slushee which quickly became juice which quickly disappeared.
You can't beat the location, a parking lot beneath the Brooklyn Bridge that affords views of architectural wonders both above and across the East River. And yet, somehow the concrete ground meshed with the concrete sky and combined with the vendors' plastic tents to transform the day from merely sweltering into Dante territory. In other words, much too hot to shop.
It's never too hot to eat, though, especially when fried-to-order fish tacos are involved. We also sampled surprisingly scrumptious margherita pizza cooked in a portable, 900-degree coal oven. A portable coal oven! Rather than stand in line for papusas, we opted for a sweet treat: greenmarket-fresh, very grown-up blackberry-and-cantaloupe and sweet melon popsicles. A wise decision, even if popsicle quickly became slushee which quickly became juice which quickly disappeared.
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